The historian and the Bible
Subtitle: essays in honour of Lester L. Grabbe
By: edited by Philip R. Davies and Diana Vikander Edelman.
Contributors: Grabbe, Lester L.; Davies, Philip R.; Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954-
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- #530
Publisher: T & T Clark International
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780567202680
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- O.T. -- Historiography; Bible. -- O.T. -- Evidences, authority, etc; Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D; Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Hans Barstad; title: History and memory : some reflections on the memory debate in relation to the Hebrew Bible / Niels Peter Lemche; title: Postcolonial studies and the study of Israelite history / Nadav Naaman; title: Text and archaeology in a period of great decline : the contribution of the Amarna Letters to the debate on the historicity of Nehemiah's wall / Rainer Albertz; title: Secondary sources also deserve to be historically evaluated : the case of the united monarchy / Thomas L. Thompson; title: Reiterative narrative and the problem of the exile / André Lemaire; title: Hazor in the second half of the 10th century BCE : historiography, archaeology, and history / Mario Liveraini; title: The chronology of the biblical fairy-tale / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: The story of Micaiah, son of Imlah : what could the ancient intended readers learn from it? / Diana V. Edelman; title: Of priests and prophets and interpreting the past : the Egyptian HM-NTR and HRY-HBT and the Judahite nabi / Hugh G.M. Williamson; title: Welcome home / Oded Lipschits; title: Here is a man whose name is Ema? (Zechariah 6:12) / Bob Becking; title: Drought, hunger, and redistribution : a social-economic reading of Nehemiah 5 / Joseph Blenkinsopp; title: Footnotes to the rescript of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11-26) / Gary N. Knoppers; title: Aspects of Samaria's religious culture during the early Hellenistic period / E. Axel Knauf; title: Biblical references to Judean settlement in Eretz Israel (and beyond) in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods / Philip R. Davies; title: The Hebrew canon and the origins of Judaism / George J. Brooke; title: What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea Scrolls.